ADDRESS
theflosocratic !nate Contra* Committee
to thy 1 0 „,suptc, orres vant a .
FRtt,t4r-erriinciii:—Amortg- the duties as-'
us by the - Dernocratic party, -Ave are-`-
4nbitged touddress• yen, setting forth in I
plain
ana'sissiek!itianner, the issues that will be SU h- ,
miurd 19: thiriietlile at the approaching elextion.
—4-frojiet-rattattior_the_opitii_o_tis of me in re quires
ithatArs should endeavor to explain-to the peo
- 4ife the -reasons _why__ tnB. _ Democratic :Tarty
/again ask Them' to comhine in one common
ettuse in support Or lii‘pritiCiples and chosen
bleu, -
The offices to be filled in the coming elec
..*m:lnar not, of themselves, be of sufficient
:*. :;cottabgitence to excite popular interest, yet
*bat of canal. Commissioner involves hip_fe
;public trusts, which should only he confi.led
to a man of known experience..and -integrity.
For that office the Democratic ',arty have'
chosen as their candidate, A obioLn .PLUBIER.
whose past life, both public and private, justi
fies us in saying that he possesses the experi
ence. firmness and unblemished integrity,
_which 1 4e-einiaently fit him (Or that -office, and
render him worthy of your confidence and
choice. But far beyond the success of any
candidate or the obtaining of any oilitte, are
the subjects now before you to be examined
and diecussed, and by your determination,
Probably, forever settled.
„Their infinite importance. not only to your
selves and to Perueiylvsnians, but- to all the
. people and States of *ll this confederacy,
should stimulate you to a zealous support of
the principles and candidates of the Deinocra
_
g cannot abstain from dwelling upon these
Asnitiects, and by Jour appeals to your reason
,twiti some of dutyAri'y our country and to hu•
Inanity, we shall strive to rouse you to an ef
fort that shall be worthy of the occasion and
, your past history.
. Democratic party of the lJnited States
,is the great conservator of this vast political
.organiaavon, stretching from the Atlantic to
: ..tfoi Pacific, and covered with teeming millions
,of • Treriliotk„ To its Sruaritianlitip has been
wird:Jed the , 01 the sample elements of
political trutti,.which arc at the basis of our
..ittatit aline-. to all the changes of public af
lifts been the proud 'privilege of that
•party ta, stand by the floostitutien of the
country and to restrain all attmepts to pervert
.its provisions or corrupt its principle& lt
has bra,-and still in, the citadel of our fiber-
Ides ail, the bulwark or these just doctrines,'
to establish which the people rose as one man,
, and with Melly rape/hies of the whole civilized
• week,, overthrew an aristocratic and legislative
despotism and established a government,
ite • atild,end, holmium temper, offer
:4d to mankind the hope that, in one land at
least; there should be. a, refuge from oppres
sion inn .istolsomee,- This has , been theduty
of the ih.nsocratioparty; end with unfaltering
fidelitrime that party kept its sacred trust.
:From , the gist moment---even before the or
ganisoition of this government--aini while the
States- were deliberating upon the adoption of
the Constitution of the eountry, the great men
'wile. were Afterwards to beetvine Thu leaders 'of
. the Deuttieratie party Uieried their powerful
enirertes and unthful'intellects to secure upon
0 Eton Inundation; atunpon 'a rock. theprinci
pies that areincorpotated in the body of the
Constitution; and in its subsequent amend
,meets. Again, we say to the Democratic
.pariy belongs' the duty of Standing resolutely
and unflinchingly by that. Constitution and
'hp the pewit-and most holy of its principles.
The ratites history of this government was
identified y with the contentions between the
„Ii arils, . wires° doctrines were the sub
* hi to
which Abe thoughts and labors of the
' E x
- lon of those days were devoted. The
'll44,leiii, Orly were sinxione to establish a
. striing -consolidated government, made for the
peepleolnd to ire 'controlled by the men of
property, and education, and social condition.
I`he Demperatio party resisted this scheme of
'grand nationality to be raised upon the ruins
of jarileptindeAt States. and si the cost of Prip-
Wit liberty, and 'urged and secured the estab
lishment ef a government Oinked and restrict
',di in itvpowers, aCkneviied ging S
i tate twee
•zeiguty. nteaded for the, beriefit and welfare of
ell„-baseri upon principles of eqiislity and jus
tiee crEarrid . for the people, and governed by
Are ?Ripple open the bread and enduring prin
ciples of human , rights. During the many
,years of important 4nd stirring politleaVevents
that have v.hre,atimmtded .those days, the two
partn'i illec offayed in the beginning on op
posite sides: were. ofWn etigaged hi disputes
arising gat of amultitudc of questions and I'4=
sues. all of which could be resolved into the
original ground of contention between them.
The Federal party being a party of expediency,
'and relying upon State craft and political man
ageurent,and still distrusting the people, have,
_undervarious names and with as various pre
testi and connivances -- ; sough: by indirect and
Crooked ways- to Obtain those ends and aims
froen-whicli they were driien by the letter and
; : liptott — of the Constitution It was supposed
sit the time had gone by when the people
ifi'llantrer-of -env -open attem i t
to Subvert thetonstitutlon and its ack nowleired
pr inc iples by any organized political 'action
iivowitilly directed to such . purpose. Implica
tion alid forced interpretation of its letter, were
the only means by which the , people were
sought to be abused, and their government
tntiued against themselves for the advancement
and profit of adroit political adventurers.—
That supposition was an error, for now we are
again reminded by the action of a new and
dangerous 'combination, thatine price of liber
ty is eternal vigilance.
' Fellow-citizens,--we-have again to confront
the same if•Spes that were made in 1799, and
to fight for the sane principles that convulsed
thiS country then, and in vindicating which
Jefferson triumphed, and Madison earned the
love and gratitude' of a thankful people. The
insignificant and minor subjects of difference
that have for some time past divided the pub
-he 'men of the country, are all obliterated by
the magnitude of the question now before you.
Your opponents. under a deluding and tempt
ing cry demanding that "'Americans shall rule
America," have at last, with forced and coin
-Pial;tire candor, ;acknowledged
,that they wish
-*eieitsitliik two principles. •
L That none hut those born in this country, '
shall enjoy the rights of citizenship.
11. That there shall he established a religi-
Outs test for office.
To reach these ends the Con , litution of the
United States must be chanted or its provis
i:nts evaded, and the spirit of our Democratic
reptihfirsufortned government thus altogether
subvertrti. The Declaration of Independence
itself charged upon the King of Great Britain,
as one of the moat serious grievances - under
which we had suffered. that "he had endeavor
od in prerent the population of these Stales. '
tot that purpose. 01)41(m:tint; she taws for the
nateesliaratinrr of lortignes, refusing to pa-s
othereur menu rage their migration hither. - and
rasing the conditions of new appropriations of .•
land." The complaint thins made, was a part
of the fir-3t triadic protest of a united peop l e
against varhittdir authority, and to favor of ho
man tights. The reasons that thee prompted
this. b een been ever since aeknowledged as an ;
element of our i n stit u tio ns that has secured to
us the confidenre ot mankind, and been the
_first mat cause of our marvellous success as
When the detects of the confederation were
ap parcat. awl the necessities of the public
calla* rut a mute stable and perfect form of
•== tert •I I I I , 11; apluog
its most conspicuous provisions was. the an
thorny (Megan d to Congress to establish an
uniform rule of naturalization, awl_ in the very
last clause of the very last section of that in
strument the following words were inserted ,:
"No RELIGIOUS TEST SHAT L EVER RE REQUIRED
AS A QUALIFICATION TO ANY OFFICE OR_ PUBLIC;
TRUST UNDER THF: UNITED NTATES." '('fitly
sealing, as it wereolle - hond of 'our Union with
the sacred — , — lnd
of conscience and the right of prti•ate judg
ment. • - I
When the Constitution was, submitted to
the States tor their adoption, it- is to he remem
bered that New Hampshire, New York, Penn
sylvania and Virginia, all ratified it with a
solemn decla'ration of rights, which they set
forth as _explanations consistent with it, and
which could not be .nhridged or violated, and
which they proposed should be adopted as
arnendmeots thereto. Rhode Island and North
Carolina, in a spirit of sturdy resistance to ab
solutism and of manly devotion to the cause of
liberty, for their own sakes, for the sake of
their poSterity, and for,the sake of the human
race. re-asserted the doctrines and dogmas of
'the. Hill of litglits, and for ie,while,declioed
taffy the Colotituljon Mira - these sacred and
inviolable prineiples of natural right were ac
knowlethred and adopted as a part of its text,
and in alibi these proposed'amendments were
incorporated ri solemn declaration in favor of
civil and religions liberty. At the fi rsl ses
sion of the first Congress the amendments to
the Constitutiotrwere adopted and subsequent
ly ratified by the States, and the first article of
those amendments settle qiiestion atrest for•
ever
_by declaring that ‘•CONGlieSti SHALL
MAKE - NA LAW HESPEeCTING Tee -ESTAntiettsicHT
OF nELIGIon oil PnolifinriNG Tee reel.; WICKR-
CiSle TliglittOr." It iA worthy of observation,
that when in Convention it was proposed by
Mr. Pinckney to add to the sixth article the
clause prohibiting a religious test, that Mr.
Sherman thought it unnecessary, the prevail
ing liberality being a sufficient security
against such, test, after which Mr. Gouverneur
Morrittand Gen. Pinckney approved the me
teen, and tt was carried unanimously. These
enlightened men were too well aware of the
disastrous consequences attendant -upon any
interference by the State with the religious
opinions of its citizens. The bloody record
of fanatical persecutions was spread out before
them, and in it they read of those attrocities
that were the darkest stains upon the
ter of the human race. From the earliest days
down to their own' time, had the history el'
mankind shown that its advancements in
had been retarded, and sometitnes al
most stifled, te the ferocious conflicts between
*contending sects and exterminating propagand
ism. In all parts of the world had fire and
fegot, • the sword and the spear, brutalized men
into implicit obedience" to religions opinions
they did not understand, and faiths at vt hick
their consciences revelled. From - religious
persecution had their fathers fled, and by em
igration had their sovereignties beer establish
-ed. Up to- that time, by God's providence,
had this land been the refuge of oppressed
men, and with God's protection they were re
solved to dedicate their country to -the eanse
of civilization and religious freedom, and trot,,
that day to this time has their noble work re- 7
mained untouched. May it lam forever!
But now;after we have enjoyed the blessings
of these sacred provisions, has a party arisen
in our initted,•and with secret oath-bound coin
binatheas, resolved to blot out this pure and
life-giving principle, and by force and violence
of law restrain and abridge the liberties of men
and limit their civil rights by an odious and
impious religious test. As citizens of this
mighty republic, as members of the great
Deutocraiie party, as men for the sake of
mankind at large,_ we call upon you to resist
this sacrilege and rebuke these cettspiraters
against the honor and dignity of our Consti•
tution and laws:
After the adoption of, the Constitution an
during the administration ofthe elder Adams,
Congress enacted two Statnies, one concern
ing.o/ierot ; and the other entitleil for
the punishment of certain crimes `se
•United States, known as the Atte li
tion Laws. Immediately upon the nt
of these statutes . , the Status of Kr
ad
Virginia_passed certain resolutions r
ing' them as violationti of the letter rit
of the Constitution and reprobating tttem as
gross attetnitte to, establish arbitrary authority
and as subversive of the liberties of the people.
Tits Kentucky resolutions were written- by
Mr. Jefferson, and theiie of Virginia were
ritten by Mr. Madison, and - both of these
were addressed to the Legislatures of the seve
ral States, inviting their co-operation to resist
those Statutes. Some of the Legislature% re
fused to co-operate with Virginia and Ken
tucky and pronounced these resooltions to be
of a dangerous tendency, and therefore not tit
for further consideration. To these refusals
the Con►tdbnwealth of Virginia replied in the
form of a report (hewn by Mr. Madison, and
adopted by the Legislature of the State: in 17:19.
The object of the A lien law was oxpos-ed iu
three resolutions and in that. Report, and the
mischievous- oonsenuenences of its adoption_
_ _ _
were luny explat
in.t.-.and demonstrated in
those masterly papers. In theta it was pro
claimed to be inhuman, impolitic, illegal and
irrational for Congress to restrain the current
of emigration that was setting in towards our
shores, caused by Ow high tides of eivil con
vulsions and public discord il:at ware raoing,
ingurepe. Mr. Jefferson. there said that the
Alien law will furnish new calumnies against
republican goverutnents, and new pretexts for'
those who wish it to lie believed that man eau
rict be governed, but by a rod of iron, and that
a very' numerous and valuable description of
the inhabitants of these States would, by this
precedent, he reduced as out laws, and that
"the mild spirit of our country and its laws
bad pledged hospitality and protection to these
friernlless strater" ' ers." It was denouneed by
Mr. Madison in his report, as tyrannical in - its
spirit and conferring a despotic power upon
the President, to Finnish "an alien from a coun
try into which he had been invited as the
asylum most auspicious to his happiness, a
country where he may have formed the most
tender connections, and_ where he may have
invested his entire property,"
This law thus resisted, and nullified, and
defeated, never assumed to do more than exer
cise a restraining power over A ttyr“; and harsh
as it was, had no relation to naturalization,
anti no man among the hardiest of its sup
porte[s at that day, dared to propose the d is
fratictlvisement of emigrants or the abolitipe of
the naturalization laws. The public that was
indignant at the tyrannical spirit of that
statute, would have burst out with one shout of
condemnation at any attempt to outlaw freemen
and ;educe them to the condition of slaves, h e :
curse they were born in another country and
were of another people. Upon the resistants
to the Alien and Sett ition Laws, and in the sup
port of the principles announced in those reso
lutions•and that Report of '99, was Mr. Jef
ferson elected and the .Demoeratlc party es.
tablished as an organized element ot political
action in this country. Front that day to this,
has it been steadfast in its integrity and puri
ty, uph.ilding and vindicating "the liberties of
the country.
Our Constitution was not wrested from the
reluctant hands of lawless kite's. It was the
free compact of free sovereignties of freemen,
e wit i eat., t of ier tor ttie4r own i oilif"4lW
advantage in thecnniiuon cause of lin n I rve
dow, and for the perpetuation of human rig-lit•:.
Our rowniercial and public iteres , itie,.,. and
out prkulfrit.ti Lib to
coura4 emigration, and by its healthful intim ARM VAL Or :3T CA :t En' CANA DA W
e --11 V:VIV73I-Ct;
nee have we prospered as a people. We
have multiplied in our inhabitants. We have Importantn
I teW
genee from the
increased in our wealth and grown mighty and the Crimea,
a population th_a,t .bas_been_driven to tis_l
--
for shelter arid to whom we are pledged before Th Rwre •
sians Repulsed wi th a Loss
the world to secure the. I
rights of civil and re- Thousand /lien.
!igloos liberty, and upon whom we are like
wise pledged as- Democrats, io confer -
fol - WaTtititizmiship...as ales inalienable
of their manhood. In the making of the laws
that govern them they as freenien have a right
to participate, TO refuse them that right
would he impolitic, illegal and Willman.
By adopting them we .have secured the sm.-
viees of men skilled in all the 'mysteries of
the mechanic art,, and we have despoiled
Europe,' and European Monarchies of greater
sources of national and per,ional prosperity, in
dividual happiness and public repots n, than if
we had conquered in a• hundred fights. Treat
then) as aliens, disqualify them by statute, and
tve have in our midst a body of oppressed, un
happy and dissati-sfied men, who -would feel
then - degradation among freemen and sink to
its level.
There is not an evil complained of in the
whole catalogue of accusations preferred
against the naturalized voters of the country,
that would equal the wrong that would he
done to our principles and ,unr people. by the
refusal to allow the right of staffrage and the
equal rioda of office to all citizens. In coun
tries where the government is a fraud upon
the people, and the right of suffrage but a
name, restraints upon the rights of citizenship
and religions tests may be in strict harturny
with their constituttous, , fint in this country,
dedicall'a to civil and religious liberty, laws
for those ',mimics *would he violent inconsis
tencies,that must shock an right minded men.
We know that there are many, very runny.
honest and well-meaning men "who wandered
oil' from the proper path, and in their desire to
correct alleged abuses. of the naturalization
laws, have suffered themselves to give their
support to this' new and pernielous political
heresy. T, those Wen we would especially
appeal, and earnestly entreat them to pause,
before they shall aid in fOrtheriog poi( cts, tin
result of which will startle their understand
ings and appal their hearts. Let them ben aril
of a political party that lms been afraid to re-,
Veal its principles. and conceals its actions—
lei them consider how unmanly and irrational
must tI Ise men lie who would thus secretly
unite, and binding each other in the spirit of
mutual distrust, by solemn and illegal oaths,
to carry out a great public purpose and to pro
duce a great political revolution. in tyranni
cal countries, where political intolerance and
perseention proscribes men for liberal (phi
_ions, such combination 3 are sometimes neces
sary, but always dangerous for the canse of
freedom. Brit i.t was left for a Democratic
and liberal age.. for men Iluis to cumrpire in
favor of political intolerance and persecuting
bigotry. _ To, the pure minded_ lIMI who have
thus erred and strayed away, do we submit
these considerations for their action, hoping
that they will yet return to correct views, and
sustain the cause of tepublican liberty by a
zealous opposition to the pernicious principles
isnd intolerant discipline of this new and dan
gerous faction. •
flelore we conclude this to your
reason and your patriotism, must invite
your attention to the subject of domestic slave-
Of. With that institution Pennsylvanians
have nothing to do. Its the exercise of a w ilt
philanthropy, WV have. bOlig 81hlee, abolished
it. lint because we have exerted our sove
reign power over it, we must not endeavor to
control sister States, in the regulation of the
subject. If we entertain sentiments adverse
to its introductiOn, *we must riot propagate
those opinions at the cost of the domestic
trampillitrof other Seats's, or at the risk of
periling our common Union. It would not
bevome freemen to be involved in inappeas
able discord, for, the sake of a small ninnher
of slaves; whose condition we cannot change.
The constitution was the result of many ad
justments and compromises, anti with it we
have scented domestic tranquility, private
proSperity and public liberty. Time will re
veal the end and purpose of this institution of
slavery ON i'sting in souse of the States" of this
Union ; but while we live under the Constim•
Lion, we must abide by its provisions and its
solemn compacts. All attempts to regulate
this subjeet by congressional action must
prove abortive and en& in tumult and disorder.
With us the Constitution is paramount to the
law 4, and itis disodedience anti insubordina
tion of the worst kind, to Btrive, by political
agitation, to 'subvert the one, and encroach
%% jib the other.
Like all other questions of strictly local
concern, that of Slavery should he submitted
to the exclusive jurisdiction of the people or
the territory or place in w hick it is proposed
to establish or reject it. prtuciple of
self-government is the bask of all our in
stitutions, and is essential to political freedom.
It way for a time, be abused and trampled on,
as other rights - have been, but men should not,
because of that, be deprived of it. It is for tire
counnon—irittlfeSt_ of_all_that each_ and_ever_v_
citizen should freely and peacefully
. exerCise
the right ; and the principle and practice thus
universally ordained and recommended by the
founders of our government, will be firmly
maintained by the, Democratic party.
J. F. JOHNSTON,
IL A. Gtr.tzA,,
Sec y's
J Aroll ZIEOLIAL,
nip: K. N. Vi mev.—The Louisville Tinto
states ns unc incident of the tuob in that city,
the following:
woman. who attempted to save her hus
band was pitched down stairs, breaking he?'
neck and limbs so that she died. The mob,
finding their game scarce, set the torch to the
houses : the women fled--one fleeing with a
young infant in her arms, was followed by a
hardllearted wretch, who, coming, up, put the
muzile'Wf the weapon to the child's head, fired
and bespattered its brains veer its mother's
(wins
ir7--rt. appears from recent nOvices that ar
rangenv ins have been made to let out into the
markets of Western Europe the large supplies
of drain produced in the Russian provinces ;
and this is to be dune through Austria, by
t ;reek and American merchants. A' large
prolit N itis thought, awaits their success, as
Russian grain, from the difficulties of trans
portation occasioned by the war, can'be bought
cheap, and the market prices of Europe are
high at present, though on the decline. This
may limit somewhat the foreign demand in our
ports ou the return to moderate prices.
A lloy WITH lionNs.--Mr. Thomas Adams,
the overseer on the —Jot.es' Farm," in t'adcio
Parish, La., publishes a statement in which
he say. :
There is on the farm a negro boy about thir
teen months old, who about a month and a
hair since had a pair of horns to make their
appearance on the front part of the head, pre
cisely in appearance to those of a young deer
they are now about one and a hall months old,
and are six inches long, well covered with vet
vet, anal on one of them two :pikes have made
their appearance, and are still growing remark
ably fast.
'.%F.'T SIEEI
ni.e liven intriA
by the casting of
zeportcti to hare
with the
,L t aitii,.:.6.
C bairn) an.
U.S —A ne‘v irnflo Fairl to
iced into Shellikl(l. England.
htlk otcaNt. atccl, Which
all the adVaillag,:s of lie II
rct;QvulLuutrialluii of
lIALrrAx. August 29.--The Cunard steamer
Jrada-arrived-here-at-4-olekwk—this-morning,
, with Liverpool dates to 18th In.t., and one
week later than previous adviees.
I:OMBAJLIOMST OF• SIVEA BOW;
The city and fOrtifications of Sweaborg were
bombarded by the allied fleet on the 11th
with terrible effect. The, place was literally
destroyed.
By the arrival of a steamer, Intelligence has
been received from the Baltic fleet, embracing
a continuous account of the operations at Swea
borg, from the 9th to the 11th instant. The
destruction of prOperty and loss sustained by
the Russians was immense. The allies suf
fered only trifling losses. On the 13th, after
the bombardment, the fleets returned to Nar , en.
The Russian fleet at Sweahorg was not de
stroyed, but the damage done the place was
most disastrous. An immense conflagration
vas caused by the bombardment, which raged
for forty-five hours, destroying storehouses,
magazines, arsenals, .ke. The various powder
n►agazines in the place blew up, together with
other military stones,. projectiles, &c.
The despatches of the French and English
Admirals do not say anything about the Rus
sian ships at Sweaborg. The allies lost no
lives in the engagement, and only two officers
and thirty men belonging to the English• fleet
were wounded. The French . escaped with
about the Fame number of wounded. Swett
burg, however, did not surrender, notwith
standing the terrible blow the allies claim to
have inflicted upon it.
THE CHM. FA.
Greal Baltic 9n the TchernaNa.
Wry important news from the Critnes had
been received at !minion. Early on the morn
ing of the But the ;tussia►► under (At.
Liprandi attacke , l the line of the Allies on the
Tchu•naya, -The Russians were 60,000 strong,
and the battle. lasted for them hours, proving
a most sanguinary contest. The Sardinians
fought ino.4t bravely with - the Allies. and re
pelled the Russians with tertihle loss. Four
or five thousami anssians were killed and-400
taken prisoners. The loss of the Allies was
but small.
The Russians were in complete retreat when
the French rez,ervacame up.
Oi l ier Paella had received orders to return to
the Crimea instend of going to Asia.
A tit. Petersburg tliNpatch says that (ort
schakoti has received orders to sink the Rus
sian fleet if Selpastopol falls.
Tll
The London. Morning Post, the ministerial
paper, says that it has reason to expect stir.
ring, and, hitherto, unexpected news-from the
Crimea. This is . supposed to relix to the great
secret expedition.
The latest accounts from Asia Minor say that
Kars has been completely invested by the Rus
sians, and the first parallel opened ; and that
all communication with Erzeroutu has been
stopped.
Turkey is sending reinforcements to the aid
of liars.
her Majesty Queen Victoria, escorted by six
ships of war, cros:,cti the British channel to
Boulogne oil the 17th, on her lung contempla
ted visit to France.
Breadstutfs.—Flour is dull at a decline of
6d per hhl:-
Abdication of Saata Anna.
A telegraphic despatch on Monday an
nounced the abdication of Santa Anna and his
departure tin• Ilavana, together with the fact
that General Carrera had been appointed Pro
visional President of Mexico for six - months.
Additional particulars state that the liberty of
the press has been established in that unfortu
nate Republic, and that Santa Anna's depar
ture was followed by scenes. of violence and
bloodshed.
The career of Santa Anna has been truly an
eventful one. lie came into public life in the
year 1821, when, after having .expelled the
royalists from Vera Uruz, he was appointed to
the command Of that city, but was deposed in
1822. He then raised a republican banner,
fought against Iturbide, and overthrew him.
More changes followed, and republicanism not
suiting his purposes. he became a leader of the
Federalist party. But he. was defeated, and
retired to his estate at Jalappa.
in 1828, he again appeared on the scene,
once more a republican, laboring to support
Guerrero as President. against Pedrazza. In
1830; he wheeled about and espouSed the cause
of Pedrazza,
.defeated the army sent against
him, and Pedrazza was President until 1833.
At the next election. Santa Anna himself was
chosen President of Mexico, defeated Ai ista
and d'Arran, who took up arms against him,
and held his seat. until 1835, when an insur
rection, headed by Lacatecos, broke out against
tiva- he- pro,
claimed himself dictator, which caused a num
ber of those who rebelled against such an usur
pation of power, to go to Texas and proclaim a
new government. A war followed. and Santa
Anna ended his dictatorship by being taken
prisoner. He was, however, soon released,
and the next we hear of hint is lighting in 1838,
in defence of Vera Cruz against the French.
Out of that contest he came minus one leg.
Again the wheel turned, and in 1341 he was
again made President, governed until 1845,
When the wheel of revolution once more
whirled him front its top to its bottom. But
it soon whirled him back, and in 1846, there
being war between the United States and Mex. 7.
ice, Santa Anna, with seventeen thousand men,
met Ceneral Taylor with four thousand, at
Buena Vista, and was routed after two days'
lighting. lle was again defeated at Cerro
Gordo, and on the 2d of February, 1843, the
Mexicans having been totally overcome, a
treaty was signed by which, as one of the re
sults of victory, the United States gained, the
golden land of C'alitOrnia.
But. Silitht Anna's troubles and changes were
not ended by the evacuation of the Attie: lean
troops from - Mexico. Internal revolution again
obliged hint to abdicate. and he retired to
Kingston, Jamaica, and then to Carthagena,
New Granada, where he became a man of
trade and business. But soon the wheel turned
again and brought hint back to the'nresidential
chair of Mexico, which he soon changed into
the scat of an Emperor, which in its turn has
now sunk under him, and he is now on -his
way to Havana to be and to do what bailles
all conjecture to determine.
And conjecture is equally at fault to deter
mine what will be the next change in the af
fairs of distracted Mexico. Santa Anna has
departed, but the elements of confusion aro
still in full play—Alvarez matching front the
south, revolulionists and American allibusters
leagued together ut the north, and all eager for
the spoils,
Ntiw thtLEANs, August 25th, 1855.—Fuller
advices from Mexico info' in us that.iaitta Anna
left the capitol on the pretence of proceeding
in person to quell the revolution in Vera Cruz.
On the 13_01 inst. the citizens of Mexico
adopted the plan of Ayutla. During the ex
c:t.ment follow mg Santa Anna's desertion, the
office of the l'aiveiNal nowspaper, and upwards
ty other balding-,, were demolished.
The military nue:A:red. killing forty pet sons
and woundlngoiany more.
city
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the Provisional government, and chose Ci.i Itqa wore rtidily yielding to to.ettfie.sl treatment.
president for six months. They also ordained The for the Ix-lief of the two
. .
the freedom of the press. The Atatue of Santa cities now aniourif to Over .5 , 50,000, more than
LAnna....wa.s_tratu.pled_upon_ by the populace. i one-fifth- of-whieh-bag-,-heen- subscribed-in--Hal,-
nurture, and is-being expended iy our relief
committee in- provisions; nod - other requisites
far the use of the sick . and' destitute. The
Norfolk boat daily takes down the supplies or-
Baltic
of l'uur
'TERRIBLE RAILROAD DISASTER.
MB
35 to 40 Killed—A Large Number
PHILADRI,PRIA. August 29. , --The 9 o'clock
train from this city for New Yotk tnet with a
serious accident near Burlington, by running
over a horse. The ttain was thrown from the
track, and it k reported that five or_six per
song---are—hilled,including the en t ;. - ,ririeer and
ffieman. A train with surgeons from Cam
den have gone to the assistance of the disabled
train:
The road being blocked up so as to prevent
the passage of the trains: the passengers by
the early train from New York had to come by
way-of Tacony.
DESPATCFI.I
Later=-Terrible Loss of Life.
PH11..%1n /August 29. P. M,—The .re
port'of the terrible. accident on the New Jersey
Railroad is fearfully verified. The accident
occurred two miles above Burlington. The
up train waited at Burlington for the down
train, which was behind time ten minutes, and
then,,,vent on slowly. •
Altehille at the crossing waited until the
train passed up and then, started to cross the
track.—Just at this moment, the engineer of
the up train hearing the down train approach
ing. suddenly reversed Iris engine. and coming,
back encountered the vehicle, crushing it to
pieces, the occupants fortunately escaping by
-throwing themselves from it. • The collision
with the vehicle threw the whole train from
the track with terrible results. One car ran
completely through - the next car, killing or
maiming nearly all the passengers in it ! The
following are tt►e names of the killed, so far
as they are ascertained :
Catharine Bigelow, Johnllam, 11. F.
ilawood, Thomas J Jlcrrdith. Edward M.
t ti,W. Ridgway. C. M. Barclay, an un
known female. Edward C. Bacon, Wilson Kent,
Alexander Kelley, (the above aremostly Phil
-adelphians,) M. J. Stoughton, Martin Connell,
of Wilmington, DLL; Jacob Howard, of Leban
on, Tenn.; harry Rusk, of Georgetown- Col
lege :,,Captain Boyce, U. S. navy, and his
daughter : James Lincoln, of Ellicott%s Mills ;
Charles Bottom, of Trenton. •
The wounded are said to number seventy.—
Aniong them are the wife and two daughters
of Captain Boyce.
InsPATen.l
The wife of Major Boyce, of the U. S. Coast
► Survey, was killed, not his daughter. Thomas
J. Meredith and John Wilma are merchants
of Baltimore. .Edward M. Given is not killed . .
Charles Bottom, of Bottom_ & Co., Trenton,_
had Mr. Green!s bank book in his pocket, which
occasioned the Mistake.
MORE OF THE KILLED. - •
Mrs. Margaret Prescott, of Salem, New Jer
sey, the wife of Rev. Mr. Prescott, Baron De
St. Andre, the French Consul at Philadelphia;
and A colored woman named Catharine Brown,
are also killed. •
Mrs. Barclay. who is among those killed,
was the wife of Clement C. Barclay, of Phila
delphia. She was en her way to Europe.
Mr. Ingersoll, son of let. Harry in•i.ersull, of
Philadelphia, who was greatly injured, ° died at
Bristol, where he was conveyed:
IyoURTH DISPATCH.]
The vehicle which caused theterrible acci
dent was .driven by Dr. Dannegan, and con
tained his wife and two children. All escaped
with trifling injury, but both of the horses were
The driverwas hard of hearing and
did not perceive the train returning. Having
seen the train pass he supposed that all was
safe.
The
down train from New 'York when it
Stopped was within 100 feet of the train wrecked
by the collision with the vehicle.
LP. S.—Among those killed, we understand,
are two mercliants of Baltimore, viz: Mr. Mer-
edith, of the lirm of Meredith & Spencer, and
Mr. Dallam, of the firm of • Dalian) & Miller,
both thy-goods merchants, and doing business
iespectively at Nos. 304 and 306 West Balti
more street.— Reporter.]
singust 30.—The number of
persons killed by the accident is ascertained to
be twenty-three—tiro of whom have not yet
been recognized. The number of persons dis
abled is 50, besides a large number with minor
injuries, but who are able to be about. Some
live or six are considered fatally injured—the
others arc getting along comfortably.
N ROW ESCAPES.
11. any were the hairbreadth escapes that oc
.c.—
curred. One gentleman, named Benjamin R.
Mills,. of Bridgeport, Conn., was knocked
througif the bottom of the car, and escaped
with a'lew contusions ; wtile a , man who was
sittin. , in the same scat, talking to him, was
killed' outright. A fiagment of the wreck
struck him in the head, producing fzaeture of
the skull.
Aim izcruia er
GO feet, through the side of the car, and was
lauded uninjured on the roadside.
Mr. and Mrs. Levy, of New York, while sit
ting in the fourth car, were thrown out of the
windows and ,escaped almost unhurt. Mrs.
Levy lost a box containing one thousand dol
lars worth of diamond jewelry, which she had
in her possession.
A gentleman. a few minutes before the acci
dent, had - exchanged his seat with that of
another, at the request of the latter. The
former escaped with a few slight scratches,
while the other was instantly killed.
second case was that. of a young lady who
said to her mother that she desired to enter
another ear. The mother protested, and both
remained in their seats, receiving only slight
wounds.
The Yellow Fever at Norfolk and Ports-
Our correspondence froM Norfolk and Ports
mouth, we regret to perceive, shows no abate
ment in the ravages of the fever, notwithstand
ing the rapid decreasein the population, many
of whom are still flying from the pestilential at
mosphere that surrounds them. The fever,
says the Richmond .kmerican, is pronounced by
1)r. Stone, from New Orleans, the same that
afflicted that city in 1853, and to which the
Creoles gave the name of la pate. It seems to
differ from the old type of yellow fever in
manner of attack. in treatment required, and
in the celerity with which
.the work of death is
performed—many of its victims dying within
a few hours of the attack. The premonitory
symptoms are simply a sharp pain like rheu
matic pain, or sometimes a paralytic shuck in
some part of m,he body. For instance. MI.
Barclay was attacked by what felt to him like
a severe blow upon the right hip. Ugh is are
attacked - by a sharp p:dn across the knuckles
of the hand. Unless attended to immediately,
the pain extends up the at in , or leg, and grad
ually over the entire body. lntei nal fever en
sues, while the skin and extremities are icycold.
The first effort is w bring about reaction by
wrapping the patient in ice : followed by hot
mustard application.; : the object being to pro
duce perspiration, which, if suceessful, is gen
erally (Mowed by a cure. Very bale, if any
internal medicine is needed
. or allowed, except
perhaps a slight tonic.
The number:of ,bath: in Norfol%. is now
ab.ut
tWcilty ui roil.,,thouth. The: ilicte3:,42 ut fluty
li'lWcY6l - • is y uiuta lai cer pupation
oun i e
Till.: XI I. I, KI)
mouth.
dered by the liowa►d A..sociation. Blessed
with unusually- good health, our citizens have
most liberally contribgted to the relief of their
suffering neighbors. —Baltimore rtierican . 27//z.
'instaut.
Notice of Inquest.
- I\ 7 f3TICE is hereby given to the heirs and
Tvl
leeat representatives of JACOB M I,
L ER, late off - - Hamilton township, Adams
county., Pa., deceased, viz : The issue of
George Miller, a deceased brother, to wit,
sainuel Miller, (Wagon-maker,) John M
Elizabeth, intermarried with_ Samuel Miller,
(Pariner,) R-ebeeca, intermarried with Moses
Wallet, Susanna, intermarried with Philip
Asper, deceased, Eve, intermarried with Solo
mon Toot, Lydia, intermarried with Samuel
!Jarman ; the issue of Peter Millet, a deceased
brother, to wit, Jacob Miller, Peter Miller,
Mary Ann,intertuarried with AuguStua Witch
er, Elizabeth Miller; Samuel Miller; Catha
rine, ititertuarried with David, Harman:- de
ceased ; Michael Miller; and -Lydia, inn
married with David Sowers -Arai an- I.
QUEST will be held on the undivided mei
or half part of a certain Meier/age or Tract
of Land, situate in
,the. township of -Hamil
ton, Adams county, adjoining lands'of Sam-
uel Wolf, Jacob Wolf, Reuben Wolf,z
W. Heagy, David March and 'others, 'and
containing 100 Acres, more or less, with the
appurtenances, on Monday, the 24th day if
September next, at 10 o'clock, - .A. M., on said
premises,—to make partition thereof to and
amongst the heirs and legal representatives
of said deceased, if the same will admit Of par
tition without,prejndice to - or spoiling the
whole thereof; but if the same will not admit
then to inquire how many
of mirth partition,
of the said heirs it will conveniently accom
modate, and part and, divide the same to and
among as ma ny
. of 'hem as the same 'will ac-
COM ['lodate ; but if the same will nut -admit of
diviSion at all without prejudice to or KpOil ng
the whole thereof, then to value and appraise
the same, whole and Undivided—whereof all
persons intereated are hereby notified:- •
HENRY THOMAS, Sheriff.
Sheriff's Office, Gettysburg,
Aug. 27, 1855,
itegisitees Notice.
- voTic is hereby given to all 'Legatees
II and other persons concerned, that -the
dtiministralion siecounts hereinafter Mentioned
will be presented at the Orphan's Court of
Adams_county, for confirmation and allowance,
on Tuesday, the 25th of September next, viz :
70. The first and final account of Valentine
S. Febl, Administrator of tile estate of Eliza,
beth Fehl,' late of Menalien 'township, dee'd.
71. The second and final arconnt of Valen
tine S. Feld, Executor of George Feld Jaye of
Mermilen township, deceased. • •`;''
72. The first aeconitt of Thomas T, Wier
man and Hamilton Everett, EkeEntors of fiaao
Wierman, late of Boller township, deceased.
.73. The Guardian accomit of Henry . Bittin
ger, Guardian of Charles - L. Bittinger, minor
son of Joseph Bittinger, late of Berwick tow n
sh
74. The first and final Gnardian account of
Fleury Bittinger, Guardian of Ann Maria Bit-
Linger, minor child of .loseph.'Bittinger, late of
Berwick township, deceased.
75. The first account of William Manger,
testamentary Guardian of Hovvard N.Bittinger,
minor son of Joseph Bittinger, Late of Berwick
tow nship; deceased.
76.- The first and final account of Philip
Beanier, jr., Elecutor of Philip Reamer, sem,
who was- Gnardian of Samuel, Mary, Israel
anti Amos Orner, minor .childsen of Felix
Orner, late of Memnon township, deceased.
77: The first and final account of Michael
Dietriek, Executor of the latit will and texta
rnent of John Ziegler, late or Stralyan township,
deceased.
. 78. The first account of 'Joseph Fink,. Ad
ministrator of . Jacob Best, late"of Germany
township, deceased.
79. The first account of John C. McCallion,
Administrator of Cornelius McCallion, late of
Liberty township, deceased.
WM. F. W A LTgrt, Register.
Register's Office, Gettysburg, t •
Aug. 27, 1855. td
PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE.
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.
SEsSION Ol 185.5-6.—The regi4ar
Course of Lectures will commence "on
Nlonday, October 8:h, and will continue until
the Ist of March.
FACULTY.
DAVID GII.RERT, M. D., Prof. of Obstetrics
and Diseases of Women and Children.
ALFRED-
Practice of Medicine.
Jonr N M.. D. ' Prof. of Surgery.
J. NI. ALLEN, M. D., Prof. of General and
Special Anatomy.
Joky , : J. REF:SE, M. D., Prof. of Medical
Chemistry.
JOHN 13. BIDDLE, M. D., Prof. of Therapeutics
and Materia Med ica.
FRANCIS G. Smrrn, M. D., Prof. of Institutes
of Medicine.
JOSEPH SHII;PEN, M. D., Demonstrator of
Anatomy. _
Clinical Instruction will be given by Pro
fessors Biddle and Neill, at the Philadelphia
Hmpital, Blockley, during the entire term of
the session, in conjunction with other men/-
hers-of the Medical Board of the Hospital.—
The Students of Pennsylvania Collage—b' lh
first.course and second-course—Will he furnish
ed gratuitously with the ticket to the Philadel
phia H ospital. Second-course Students:nave
the option of receiving gratuitously the ticket
to the Pennsylvania Hospital. A Clinic will
also be held at the College, every Wednesday
and Saturday morning throughout the season.
For the entire Course of Lectures, $lO5 00
Matriculation, (paid once only) 5 00
Graduation, ao 09
The Dissecting Rooms will be opened in
September, under the direction of the Profes
sor of Anatomy, and the Demonstrator.
Preliminary Lectures will be delivered dur
ing the fortnight preceding the opening of the
sescion.
JOHN .1* RE ESE, D.. Reqistrar,
No. 122 S. Ninth Street,
Aug 20, 1855. St PHILADELPHIA.
IMMEDIATE RELIEF FOR THE
TOO MI ACHE
ITII ER E is to he had AT the 4irtig stores of
S. IL Buehler, Gettysburg. and James
A. Elder, Kinittitsburg, a mast rgrehcal remedy
for !he, wlticli will, („I( properly ap
according to directions,) cure the moat
rit)le 'at Tof•thathe instasitancously. s hould the
pain in cuurse of Limb reappear, the same ap
plication has to be matte aga.n. and after two .
or three applications the cure, will lie etiectudl.
Please call for .k. Forger's Toothache Balsam.
rorirl'riee et-dts per phi.d.
vou waut a tin. - 4Ver or Silk ii.lT,
iii ~L 3 . )A.A.ru:\ s cubLl:c.
FEE S.